Why open a flower shop? She just opened a flower farm instead.

In the Skagit Valley of Washington, there is a beautiful little flower farm! A few years ago, in pursuit of a slower-paced, simpler, more meaningful way of life, Erin Benzakein and her family left the hustle and bustle of city life and came to the Skagit Valley of Washington.

They dreamed of eating fresh vegetables grown in their own garden, keeping a flock of chickens, and cultivating a small orchard.

So Erin and her family built this 2-acre Floret Flowers farm.

Erin has many titles. She is not only the founder and public face of Floret, but also a versatile photographer, writer and teacher, and the winner of the 2014 Martha Stewart floral design competition in the United States.

Behind every seemingly beautiful career there must be not-so-beautiful hardships, and running a flower farm must be the same. Their daily life is really no different from that of farmers, rising early and working late to care for the crops growing healthily in the fields.

It is just that they wander among the flower fields every day, and their hard work is rewarded with beautiful fresh flowers.

Erin vigorously revitalises the seasonal flower industry locally, encouraging people around the world to join the ranks of flower farm owners and to share and exchange their growing experiences with flower farmers. Erin's floral designs are also frequently published in major newspapers and magazines.

Almost all the photos presented to the public by the little flower farm were taken by her brother Chris Benzakein. He is the farm's solid backbone, and he seems able to solve every problem on the farm!

He is also a goofball! :-D

He not only has to complete all the crop production, greenhouse construction, soil mixing, irrigation and harvesting work on the farm, but also has to constantly use his lens to capture every flower story on the farm!

Erin's younger brother, younger sister and other family members are also responsible for other important work on the farm.

Erin's career did not stop at the flower farm. They went on to found a floral design studio and a floral school, and take on wedding floral work and more.

As Floret became more and more successful, the flowers on the farm could not meet demand. For quite a long time they could only tell customers, "Sorry, we are sold out."

By conventional logic, Floret should have expanded the farm's area, but they did not do so.

They believe that rather than making their farm bigger, it is better to stay on their small 2 acres, improve their production level and output efficiency, and teach this small-scale, high-density flower production technique to more flower farmers like them, so that more flower farmers can also succeed!

Have you ever dreamed of owning a flower farm?

But you have never had the chance to make it happen,

Perhaps because there is no time,

Perhaps because the flower shop is too far away,

Perhaps because it is not to your liking,

Perhaps...

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